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Farmville introduces STORAGE SYSTEM!
In an update made late Thursday night, Farmville finally added a Storage System!
Your existing Barns and Tool Sheds are turned into a storage place. You may also purchase additional Barns and Tool Sheds for storage.
Each Barn or Tool Shed holds specific amounts of storage. For example, the Red Barn holds only six items.
Currently only decorations can be stored and not animals, trees, or some other items like tractors which also cannot be stored.
There is a maximum of 100 items that can be stored.
Official Word from Farmville:
“We’ve heard some of you are feeling a bit cramped on your farm. FarmVille is proud to introduce STORAGE! Now you can decorate to your heart’s content while knowing that you have a place to store your stuff. By the way, have you seen the new Country Fair items? Check ‘em out and see why the sheep are having such a blast! ”
How Storage Works from Zynga:
• You can store your items in the barns and tool sheds
• Each barn and tool shed has an individual capacity amount (for example, a red barn can store 6 decorations)
• When you click on an item, you will see an option to move it to storage
• Once you have moved an item to storage, you can right click on any barn or tool shed to see your current items in storage
• Note: all your items are stored in one central location and can be accessed by barn, tool shed, or by clicking the new storage icon in the toolbar
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:06 am
So, I have to own 10 barns to store 60 things? Maybe others are happy about this, but I’m kind of annoyed.. I was looking forward to being able to buy a lot of decorations and not having to worry about space. Now I’m not really saving any space if I have to buy more barns/tool sheds.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:26 am
I have a barn and a tool shed already but it only allows me to store 8 items which are in both (same items) whats going on with that then and i agree with other comment regarding having to own 10 barns this is very disapointing indeed. Plus where is my mastery sign for grapes which i also hve not received yet…. all my other friends fill the same VERY DISAPPOINTING….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:33 am
They need to re-vamp the storage system. They should at least up the number of items you can hold. I can’t believe that they made different number of items for different buildings.
If they are making existing buildings have a purpose they better do something freaking awesome for the VILLA or how about the PAGODA!?
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Suxs A stool takes up two spaces while ashed takes up 4…complete waste maybe its nice for big items..like the hot air baloon..
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:43 am
I think they are Mistaken , i stored 8 items in my Barn and 8 items in my tool shed ..
There is some confusion !!!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:48 am
Lorraine Axford, the Red Barn can only hold 6 items, and the Tool Shed can only hold 2 items.
You need Farmville cash to get any of the buildings that hold more items. Kinda disappointing that the game is revolving more and more around real money. I know I can’t afford to do that.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:53 am
This game became more and more about real money and less and less playing for fun …. the success blinded much of the eyes in zynga ? they are forgetting that what gave them the success was that this game was mainly free and only the luxuries were with real money…. they better be carefull if they dont want to end bad because of their greed.
i mean the need of FV is growing from update to update and soon it will be mainly on that + the amounts of money you need for each item is growing – stop the greed already!! i know that if it will get worse i am leaving – it sucks playing a game that you can’t do almost nothing unless you pay money.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 4:39 am
yeah its a very disappointing one but we should understand that farmville is a game for us but it is a business for the creators of farmville
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 4:52 am
i can store 10 items. i hope the storage system can store up to 50 items. or else, unlocked the 24×24 farm expansion! ^_^
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 4:54 am
this storage system is so stupid i think we should only have to buy one barn and only have to pay to increase the storage capacity with coins
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 4:55 am
When I saw the results of the storage update I was very disappointed. Many of us including myself easily have at least 50+ items that could be stored. The only ones that anyone can buy have 2& 6 item limits. The average person would have to buy multiple barns just for storage which defeats the purpose of having storage. I don’t know of any other game that charges real cash for storage. This is just another example of Zynga becoming a money hungry company by charging real money to store items.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:34 am
That’s lame… I need MORE storage space than that! Grr.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:47 am
The sad thing is that with the tool shed you waste 16 small squares, with the barn 48 small squares. This means that the Harvest table is probably the only thing worth storing in there because it takes up 14 small squares, whereas all the other “big” decorations take 8 squares. If you put decoration which take 8 squares you aren’t gaining anything and if you put in smaller things you’re losing space… so you’re better off without the tool shed and barn.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:55 am
very lame, i think i will sell some of the crappy decorations
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:58 am
wow i am thoroughly disappointed in the storage system… i own a barn and two sheds and all together it lets me hold 10 items??? wtf am i really going to store with 10 spaces? i was hoping to be able to put away the extra fences and hay bales that i dont need right now…
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Other games give you more storage, you don’t have to buy anything. This is why I visit my farm less and less.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Well I can store 8 things then.
Haunted House, Crop Circle, Plant Monster, Manor and some tombstones.
That’ll clear some space for the villa
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Ridiculous – agree with above, buying more buildings to get more “space” on the farm doesn’t solve a thing. I will just have to sell off what’s not in my design plans. I don’t mind paying real money now and then, but yes, this is going overboard.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Not happy with the new storage function, I agree with the other posts..I have one barn and two sheds and was only able to store 10 items in all 3!! Should that have been 10 items in each building for a total of 30 items, what good is that and I needed more land to plant crops..don’t want to add more barns or sheds for storage…hopefully they will realize what a big mistake they made and redo this most important function that we all have so been looking forward to!!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:36 am
WTF!! Stupid errors, I received a blue ribbon and then there was a error, Now I have the blue ribbon but not the money and xp and I couldn’t share the wealth!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:49 am
I agree with the money thing. Zynga is obviously becoming money hungry… especially now that they lost their scam income from the advertiser / lead-gen program.
On the one hand, I can’t blame them for trying to make money by making some things FV$ only… but on the other hand, when 50% of the new county fair items are things that 99% of players will never consider buying, you have to wonder if Zynga has lost the plot just a little bit.
Perhaps Zynga should have included in their county fair paraphernalia a big tank with a shark in it, and a ramp with a motorcycle… because Farmville has clearly jumped the shark.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:03 am
@Jungle Jil — you’re totally right! This business about non farm related things on Farmville is the very definition of “Jumping the Shark”. Further, loyal fans, such as our selves, are increasingly anger and bitter about cash only policy for cool items, and programing errors.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I sell everything I don’t use. I even sell horses. I want my farm to look cute and not full of useless things and crowded animals.
I don’t keep more than 4 or 5 cats, 3 bird fountains and so on.
I like my farm with many flowers, hay bales, and everything to look like a Tuscany farm.
I dont’ need any carousels on other fancy things.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:27 am
why can the pink shed and barn hold 35 but the black barn can only hold 22? why kind of rip off is that?
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:30 am
STORAGE SYSTEM = FAIL!!!
I stayed up for quite a bit (but ultimately fell asleep) for the new stuff and it SUCKS!!! Hey $ynga, we are fans! Maybe fanatics! But we aren’t dumb. I already had two shed and when I place items in one, it automatically places it in the other. So instead of 8 items total, I can only store 4. The only cool thing about this is that I have some form of teleportation with items I want to move around.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:50 am
The way I see it, if you want to charge customers to play your game, fine. How much does a video game cost? US$40? How many FV$ can you get for US$40? FV$240. But, how long will that FV$240 last you really? If you bought all the FV$ carnival items, it would cost you FV$180… which is essentially US$30 of real cash.
Now, US$30 is more than many video games (better than Farmville) cost in their entirety. Do the Zynga people really think it is reasonable to shell out US$30 for a bunch of pixels?
If the people at Zynga had any brains, they’d create a monthly membership fee of US$5, and make all the FV$ only stuff available to them… or give them a recurring FV$100 each month or something.
I imagine that their current ridiculous price structure is wearing thin quickly, but then again, I imagine that there are still (and always will be) people out there who are dumb enough to crack open their wallets come Christmas time when Zynga offers to sell them a Cyber Snowman for 5 dollars.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Wow, what a bunch of whiners.
It costs money to create this game. Programmers, creative staff, administrators, storage space, offices, computers and benefits for all these people.
How do you think they get paid?
Do you see an interesting movie being advertised, go to the theater and say, “hey, I REALLY want to see this movie, it should be free, what a rip off!”
OR do you go to work each day and expect to get paid? Why don’t you just go to the office and work for free? Because that’s what you seem to expect the Zynga people to do.
Quit being so cheap and pony up some cash if you want these things so badly.
OR don’t. You can play the game perfectly well for free.
I find it so ironic that so many of you are whining that you can’t afford stuff yet you expect others to work for free.
It is thinking like this that has the country in such a mess. I want free healthcare yet i don’t want to pay more taxes. I want to bomb iraq, yet I don’t want to pay more taxes. I want to pay 99 cents for plastic crap at wallmart, but I don’t want companies to outsource to china. People need to be a little smarter and realize what you want needs to sync with the COST of what you want.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:58 am
I would like to be able to rotate the buildings. I agree the carnival items are a waste
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:08 am
I too was expecting more out of the storage system. It just doesn’t make sense. If they keep going the FV route, they should bring back the free offers. At least then we knew we were being scammed.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Surfnspy…
I don’t disagree with making money, but I think that Zynga is going about it all wrong. People are going to get tired of shelling out money for stupid stuff on Farmville much more quickly than they will be replaced by new people with more money.
Zynga is trying to milk a few thousand suckers for (literally) hundreds of dollars. There are probably another ten thousand who they can get for $20 or $30. Then there are 50,000 or 60,000 who will shell out $5 or so. That’s a pretty pitiful number compared to the 60 million or so who are actually playing.
The fact is that probably a fair number of those 60 million people would be willing to pay some money to play Farmville at some increased level… but are not willing to shell out $30 or $40 just for a stupid set of carnival rides.
My guess? Look for Zynga to come up with a more intelligent way to make money off of Farmville in the next year as the deep-pocket suckers dry up.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Same. I can only store 8 items…
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Maybe your level decides how much you can store. My friend can only store 2 items while I can store 8. He is a lower level than me…
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I have a red barn and 2 sheds. When I store an item, it stores the exact same item in all 3 buildings. How is that??? So between 3 buildings I can store 10 things total. This is a terrible system.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Oh wait… The buildings in the market tell you their storage capacity. My mistake… >_<
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I’m all for Zynga making money but they haven’t made any out of me with these country fair items. I don’t want any of that nonsense. I’ll buy decorative, non-productive stuff like the owl or a spooky tree and I like my fire pit but what I really want is productive stuff. I like my donkey and my maple tree: they were worth the extra. But a carnival ride? Leave that to Rollercoaster World.
The storage differences between Red Barn (6) and the FV$ barns (20) , and the Tool Shed (2) and Pink Tool Shed (15) is a bit wide. Why not just give the FV$ items twice the capacity of the free and make the barns 10/20 and the tool sheds 5/10.
Is it my imagination or are the FV$ prices rising? This latest lot seems more expensive for what you get. Here’s hoping that the Xmas loot is more sensibly priced.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Yeah the storage capacity needs to be greatly increased, i mean storage should be able to hold 100′s of items, if its not changed then il be quitting farmville. Im not payin FV to store items, some of which i already paid FV for in the first place
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I too am VERY disappointed in the new storage system. This was something I eagerly was awaiting for. I had a barn & shed –reportedly each to hold 8 items. I begin to store some items and soon both shed/barn were each filled with the same 8 items! I should have had space for 16 items. Go figure that one out. And yes, I would have spent coins to purchase more storage capacity. But they went about this totally wrong.
Sure, they are a business to make money. But the die hard fans will keep them in the game. And remember it is a beta testing — it should not cost much to the fans. We are helping them develop what could be a fantastic game. We also work for them…. Without “us” there would be no farmville. Any smart business knows greed will make you crash & burn. They should have followed suit like many other games such as farmtown, fish world etc where there is just a place to hold items; almost unlimited.
I feel as if I have been rooked and doubt I will visit my farm much anymore. Which is a shame as the graphics vs other farms is so much better on farmville.
I love this site by the way … i’ll be checking here for any further developments.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Oh… and i just bought and sold a barn because i bought, realised how crap it was and sold it, i can easily re-arrange the items that i want to store to take up less space than that huge frickin barn
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Yep, I bought the non-FV$ stuff, like a tent, a cotton candy machine, and a popcorn machine! Just a little weekend fun…and when Thanksgiving comes I will probably sell it back anyway.
Only things I would spend FV$ on are the things I REALLY like.
I already spend $15 to play WoW every month, so, I put my FV$ limit at $15 also. So far I’ve only spent $5 this month — I wanted a pink barn.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Surfspy you dont have to play lawyer for Zynga i am sure they can do it themself
and no one here is a whiner they are just disppionted i am sure we are all so let’s be nicer ok ?
as for the money issue – i am sure that Zynga needs the money to stay alive so i have no arguments about the charging thing – i DO have a problem with the fact that the prices are really soaring – i mean 42 FV for a stinking wheel ? what the point? and they are also HUGE and take up a lot of space.
moreover it’s becoming more and more about money for basic features and that is unacceptable.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Here Surfspy, shut up. Take a look at all the ways Zynga ARE making cash. Firsty “Sweet seeds for haiti” fair enough making money for a good cause, but theyre only giving 50%! look at the amount of people donating to that, they are making a bomb from that. Secondly advertising, every zynga game has adverts running down the side of the page, not just farmville, ALL their games (and now adverts popping up in game) they also would do well to remember that without their free players the game would never have gained popularity and therefore would never have got to where it is today, if only their paid members played, the game would still be only starting off. DOnt forget also the amount of people recommending the game to other people again raising money for farmville. So dont tell us that free players dont do their part and deserve better from the game.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I guess it’s all about unmet expectations.
Oh well. And I agree with the post that says, we are just playing to have fun, but the creator is out to make money. Who can blame them? But, I know I will just adjust my expectations and go forward playing the game from a smaller FREE perspective. Might not have all the fancy stuff or the big storage barn, but I’ll have my farm! (I don’t want a pink barn anyway. I’m a traditionalist.)
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 am
And to add a quick note about Zynga making money, Smecky is right, advertising is HUGE revenue. Why do you think Television is free? Well, if you don’t count the cost of cable. And radio. It’s all about the advert $’s baby!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I knew zygna would find some way to **** the storage system up……i said that in the back of my mind the whole time. It would have been too good to be true if they just gave us storage that was actually decent…gosh…this storage is so bad its almost like not having any at all…i mean 2 items in the shed!!! seriously..WTF!…thats just ridiculous…and i agree wit the previous posts when they said u have to buy more storage takin up more land on an already overcrowded farm just to store items???…thats makes absolutely no sense……they really need to stop makin everythin farm cash, but i think this is just the beginning…soon any new update is gonna require farm cash…well at least to get the best, or most out of it..u watch and see
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I love the storage system
I already had a tool shed and while it only holds 2 items, I got the big things in there (my haunted mansion and hot air balloon). The rest of the stuff, I hid behind trees and fences so it doesn’t look cluttered. Plus, I don’t buy a lot of things that need to be stored anyway. Thanks. Farmville!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Maybe they should sell more annoying pop-up advertising in the game (not the zynga games but to other companies) and charge a lot, and they could charge the players who are annoyed with the advertisement to pay a monthly fee for no pop-ups, I bet they make much more off of that than selling those stupid stuff, and charging so much for functional stuff like fuel and storage
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I don’t really get the point of storage. If the barn would store my tractor, harvester and seeder, it would be great. As it is, I either want to display a decoration or if not, I just sell it. I don’t really want a bunch of buildings taking up space to store stuff. Makes no sense.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Honestly, you kids whine way too much.
I haven’t spent a single damn penny on this game and I have a manor, white barn (20 spaces), maple tree, turkey, and a haunted mansion.
Instead of wasting farmspace with trivial items why don’t you plow your fields, level up, and save farm cash for items you actually want?
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
People who think Zynga is making a killing on advertising need to buy a clue. The ads run on Facebook, not Farmville.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
i have a barn & 2 sheds was really disappointed in what they call storage… while it is better than nothing, it is as close to nothing as you can get.. can’t they do better…
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
What does the line “the sheep are having a blast ” mean? There’s no new item related to sheep???
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I have two tool sheds and a red barn. I’m only able to store a total of 10 items. You’d think I’d be able to store 10 unique items for each building, but I’m only aloud 10 altogether… which is incredibly stupid. They better fix that… I just bought all this County Fair stuff and I don’t want it on my farm, but I want it in storage. && 10 is NOT ENOUGH. I have so many things I’m hiding… hiding behind the cow factories, behind tool sheds and behind the barns, and even behind trees. I don’t want to do that, I just want to store it all.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I have defended Zynga’s practice of selling items in Farmville, as well as taking 50% of the profit in the Sweet Seeds program, but the scale of “storage” is VASTLY in need of adjustment! It is ridiculous that I have 2 barns + 2 storage sheds taking up LOADS of space and only able to store SOME of my halloween decorations!?!?!?!?! I spent $8 in real money after halloween to buy 4 GIANT orange rubbermaid containers to store halloween items… that was a much better bang for my buck than storage in this online game!!!?!?!?!? Ok, that bad analogy aside, the Farmville storage solution is FAR from meeting my expectations…. for whatever that is worth…
/purchaser of $FV
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Agree with comments about the overpriced Carnival (or CarniVILLE as someone in the FV Freak chat called it) items. I don’t mind paying thousands of coin for limited edition items, but having to fork out more and more FVcash just seems counterproductive. Besides, like other commenters, I don’t like the idea of turning my farm into a carnival. It looks strange enough with elephants on it.
And I was so cheesed off with the storage capacities. If I wanted a pink toolshed or pink/funky barn, I would have bought one in the first place before they turned it functional! Who the heck paints their barns psychedelic colours anyway?
And the popup advertising. Is there any way to petition Zynga to get that f***ing thing OFF?! I’m inundated with Mafia Wars requests from my network as it is. If THEY can’t make me play Mafia Wars, what makes Zynga think that annoying the crap out of me will convert me?!
The carnival items look awesome on someone else’s farm, but I’m a farmer. My land is for produce and animals. There’s no space for a fair. Unless they release the expansion.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
now what really annoys me is I actually play mafia wars and I still have to put up with the ads!!!!!!!!! also at the moment Im not seeing the storage as storage but as a bonus to the decoration
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I found this posting; an interview of the Zynga CEO: pretty much sums up his philosophy–revenue-revenue–revenue–any way he can get it. He admits to a mistake earlier on … though from my point of view he is still missing a very big chunk of the puzzle…as someone said; farmville is farming, not a carnival. i will be getting rid of most of my stuff (since I too do not want 1-=pink barns on my farm) and probably leave it bare until or if they decide to change.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus-faceboo/
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said earlier this week that he intends to make sure his company’s games don’t include scammy offers in the future. Our full background on this story is here.
But what he didn’t say in that blog post is that Zynga has been scamming users from the beginning quite intentionally as part of their revenue model. Rather, he pointed much of the blame at middlemen offer companies: “We need to be more aggressive and have revised our service level agreements with these providers requiring them to filter and police offers prior to posting on their networks.”
Last spring, though, he gave a much clearer explanation to an audience at a Startup@Berkeley mixer, admitting that scamming users was part of Zynga’s business model from the start. And it was all caught on video. I think everyone sort of knew that this was exactly Zynga’s gameplan. But to hear it said so directly is just shocking.
The full 30ish minute video is here. We’ve taken the relevant section of the video, roughly starting at around the 10:40 mark, and embed it below. From the video:
I knew that i wanted to control my destiny, so I knew I needed revenues, right, ****ing, now. Like I needed revenues now. So I funded the company myself but I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I dont know, I downloaded it once and couldn’t get rid of it. *laughs* We did anything possible just to just get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business…So control your destiny. So that was a big lesson, controlling your business. So by the time we raised money we were profitable.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
yah I was really disappointed with the storage system, like others have said it defeats the purpose, I still plan on buying a black barn with the FV I earned so that will provide some storage
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I’m disappointed, becuse I thought that you could put unlimited items in it. I dont like the idea of limited storage.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Hahah… I hadn’t thought of that…. As a level 500+ mafia wars player and level 20+ fishviller, I should be exempt from the cross product advertising… I suppose, even so, I would just get Yoville and Cafe World advertised to death…
I can ignore the new ads, though… it is the storage joke that peeves me!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Guess I am one of the few that likes the storage, but I initially bought FV dollars when I started playing, and already had 3 Black Barns. So I have 62 storage spots, which once I do the final set up of my Farm (meaning when I finally purchase the Villa) I will have more than enough storage space. It also freed up about 50 more spots to grow, so I can get my villa quicker. Sorry all, I would be peeved too, if not for my already purchased barns!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Everything else aside, why are people so worried about Zynga making enough cash to stay afloat? Zynga is setting the precedent for what is achievable for an online application and are breaking records daily with their revenue generated. No other Online developer is said to clear over $100 million dollars this year but Zynga. Not only that but they have just cleared a deal with EA sports which is said to make them an additional $400 million. As I said before, I think they are doing alright and they are fueled by greed and greed alone.
And for those fact mongers who say “where’s your proof?”
http://tiny.cc/OAOwD
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
can someone make a list of what hold what?!?!?! as far as i know, the lil crappy shed you pay for with coins only hold 2 things, which means the black barn holds 20, and the red barn holds 8. can someone else post up what they have and what they can store? thank you!!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
nevermind, im a retard, i just noticed what they hold…it lists it in the market, i looked too quickly
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Adding my name to the list of the unhappy. I got a red barn because I did not want a pink barn. It wasn’t the cash. It wasn’t the coins,. It was my taste in decorating my farm. So now, because I did not fork over the cash, I only get 6 spaces of storage? How the heck does that even make sense? A barn only holds 6 items and a shed only two? They should at least double it… or better yet, like FarmTown, give everyone free storage and plenty of it.
I realize Zynga is a business and is trying to make money, but misleading your customers isn’t the way to do it. I’m more likely to throw real money at an application that keeps their promises and treats their users well.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Oh. For those who don’t know it yet, the barns and sheds store buildings too. So the wells, cottages, villas, rest tents and whatnots can be put into storage! That’s a good idea. But a larger capacity for barn/shed bought using coin would win alot of fans too!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Well, I’m really disappointed in the new storage crap. My pink barn only holds 22 items, not 35. My little storage building holds 22 items. Problem is – my little building holds the SAME 22 items as my pink barn. Typical Farmville – push stuff out before the bugs have been worked out. Then all the farmers (us) have to be aggravated ’til they get the bugs worked out!!
And of course, they come up with “storage” AFTER I get rid of all my hot air balloons and millions of other things!!
Why can’t we have unlimited storage? (I’d buy a lot more!!)
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I’m completely disappointed. At level 32, I almost have my villa and was planning on keeping on playing but now that I see that things are costing more and more (and $FVs no less) and the storage doesn’t actually solve my space issues, I think it’s almost time to hang up my farm boots and get a life
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It’s a shame that Zynga is making so many loyal players angry because soon there will be none left. Sure, they are making money now but when people walk away? Then there will be no more revenue and no more Zynga. Stop thinking short term profit and start thinking about the future – otherwise there won’t be a future anymore.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
FARMVILLE STORAGE=FAIL
I have 2 tool sheds I bought 1 for 8,000 coins and then farmville gave me a free tool shed.Each tool shed holds 2 items right? well I wanted to store these crappy leaves that ppl keep sending me and i had like 3 of them.I put all 3 in 1 tool shed and then there was more i wanted to store. Then i realized that i ony had 1 storage space left.IT TURNS OUT WHEN YOU PUT ITEMS IN ONE BUILDING IT GOES IN ALL OF THEM AND GIVES YOU LESS STORAGE SPACE.I was requesting storage space too but i didnt think that you had to take space up on a building I thought they were just going to make another box down by the tools and make the storage capacity 100 items instead taking space up on your farm really the storage buildings take up more space that the things you wanted to store. so basicly the storeage is POINTLESS!!!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
VERY disappointed w/ the storage!! I was expecting something more better, not to sound selfish or anything. But wtffffff you guys can do way better than this. Stop leading us all on and then giving us some crappy stuff. Fix the storage…improve it!! PLEASE!!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
i like the storage but it aint the best i think everyone needs to stop whinning they got what they wanted yeah zynga is making things pricey but who isnt these days they do need to make money and well if u cant afford it dont buy it if u dont like it dont use it i do think u can get along fine in this game for free my son does my friends do so y dont everyone stop whinning saying they r going to leave if it keeps going and sit down relax and enjoy the game
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
oh and people need to relise nobody is perfect not even zynga
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Why don’t people just sell stuff.
The incredible need for storage is making me worry about your home hygiene. What’s that show where the cleaning crew goes into people’s homes and they’ve saved EVERYTHING? There’s mold, trash heaps, and the house is unusable. Gross.
Yeah, there were some cute Halloween things (that alien stuff was crap to me) but I only kept the owls and the pumpkin cat. I ruthlessly threw everything else away.
It came down to this. Why keep it? If you intend to keep playing, there will be a ton of new fun stuff next year you’ll want to collect.
Be strong!
Dump, dump, dump!
And for those STILL complaining. Put yourself in their shoes. If you’d invented this crazy addictive game, wouldn’t you want to make as much money as possible? And really, I’ve never paid for FV and have bought and sold lots of stuff. Luckily I answered a lot of quizzes when those paid FVs so I have literally hundreds of dollars. But now I’m focused on mastering crops. So not only do I have tons of FV, but 3 million points and I’m on Level 43.
All that for free!
Compare that to a movie:
$15 for the ticket
5 bucks to park
5 bucks for a soda
5 bucks for popcorn
30 bucks for two hours of entertainment.
I’d say this is a pretty good value!
I did sort of brainstorm ideas for Zynga to avoid charging so much directly. To the point that tv is free (which it really isn’t–who doesn’t pay for cable or direct tv to the tune of at least $60 bucks a month?) this might be a way to have sponsors precluding the need to charge so much.
For example, What do people think of ad sponsored crops as alternative way to make Zynga money?
Like Welch’s grapes?
Or Countrytime Lemonade Trees?
Hunt’s tomato vines?
Perhaps they could work out a deal, that if you grew more of their branded crop, you could get a coupon or other stuff? Meanwhile Zynga would be paid by the sponsor for a tiny amount for every one of the branded crops that people grew.
Just a thought.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
I agree with those who are less than happy with the storage being offered. It is nothing off Zynga’s nose to give the players what they want. They are making the money and wouldn’t be where they are now if it were not for the players. The game has a ton of glitches and not much in the way of letting us know things like … how do I replenish the flowers in the flower shed?
My question is ….. how in the heck (without shelling out my hard earned $) do I increase the FV bucks? That alone is very frustrating.
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
One more thing …. my pink barn does not hold 35 items …. hmmmmm what’s up with that.
And another thing … the company is hard as heck to communicate with. I give up!
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
My post (#60) was incorrect. Just to clarify, Zynga has not completed a deal with EA. I read it wrong. My apologies. What I also missed in that article was this…
“analysts estimate Zynga, with 186 million users, may already be worth over $1 billion.”
http://tiny.cc/OAOwD
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
i was storing items in the gifts section before they released the crappy storage system and now they have also put a limit on items in your gift box…. thats not very fair
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 12:34 am
I have already stored 13 items in my storage (haunted mansion, pagoda, tea house, black manor, workshop, plant monster, small pond, 2 tombstone, 2 spooky bats, greenhouse, and farmhouse) i still have 9 storage space left.
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 12:41 am
@Lori: There’s always been a limit of 30 items for the giftbox.
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 2:46 am
Storage. Well huge disappointment. I bought tons of the Halloween items. The fencing alone is well over 50 pieces. I am definitely not going to invest in the new carnival items. FV dollars to purchase, and then FV dollars to store it all?? NO WAY!
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 5:23 am
@Surfnspy: I think you underestimate how much Zynga makes. They can also use other ways of getting money, such as my rewarding people for filling out marketing survays, online purchases (of non-zynga goods), etc.
However, those alternate methods have had some problems with other games, I know in another non-zynga game I had an email hacked, probably becuase of that stuff.
Another method is to simply reward people with FV$ more than what they currently do. In Vampire Wars, another Zynga game, they have Elder Points (relativly similar to FV$, bought in the same method). Elder Points are given a number of ways, collecting awards (smilar to ribbons) and going up a level. Added to this, you level up faster. This allows for players to get points even if not spending cash relativly faster, and might help entice people to spend more.
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 9:46 am
I have a major complaint about the storage system, but for a reason other than most of you on this comment string.
I was messing around with my farm today, and was delighted to find that I could store my Black Manor in my Red Barn, looking to free up a few more squares to plot some extra crops. However, when I went to replace the Manor on my farm, it charged me another 56 FV cash and didn’t replace my old Manor, but purchased a new Manor!!! So now I have 2 Manors (one on my farm and one still in my inbox — useless!) and am out 56 FV cash! Be careful of what you store and replace guys, it seems that if the items are bought with FV cash that when stored and replaced they re-charge you your FV cash and duplicate your item much like a new purchase. Might have just been a glitch in my case but thought I’d warn you all before you got in the same predicament. E-mailed Zynga but waiting for a response…
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Hoodwinked!!! I was under the impression that the barn stored 10 and the shed stored 10. So having a little extra room, I bought another shed. Then found out that the barn hold 8 and the shed only holds 2…so I spent 14,000 coins on a shed to store two items!?!? BOGUS!!! I agree with most all the other posts – this is billed as a “FREE” game, but apparently when you spend real money, you get perks. I am finding out that the big announcements are for the cash spenders, and don’t benefit us “poor folk” much at all. Pretty much a let down. What about those of us who have played this game every day, told our friends about it, gotten friends to play…apparently dedication and spreading the word means nothing!!! Will continue to play, but probably not with the same enthusiam.
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I don’t think folks understand – when you have a barn and two sheds – and you put your cursor on the barn and you see 0/10 – cursor on shed 1 shows 0/10 and shed 2 shows 0/10 – you don’t have 30 items. You have eight for the barn and two for each shed – a total of 10. All the storage items go in one place, so you don’t have to look in all your buildings to find something. All the storage units are tied together!! But still bogus.
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
ok well at first i was so mad about the storage system and i thought it was stupid but if you buy one pink shed it solves everything. you can put away ur houses and windmills or anything thats really expensive and big! if they didnt have this system everyone would end up deleting the really expensive stuff like farm houses or cottages but now you can hold all of that! i agree with everyone that zynga is money hungry but a tool shed can hold a manor and a farm house. if u compare that to size… thats pretty good!
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I hiaveno problem with the system mergin your sheds and barn together ..the money..etc. just the items you can hold i mena c’mon…you have a large barn and you can only hold 6 items…
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 10:43 pm
the storage system should be UNLIMITED! helloooo! it’d be so much more better. i have so many white fences to store but cant >:|
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Whoo Hoo to Surfnspy… Yes some of your comments really upset some folks, including me. But I REALLY like the idea of manufactured sponsored ship? Brilliant! So I thank you Surfnspy for sounding less aggressive and coming up with some other brainstorming. You have lots of empathy … global thinker … you see both sides, always.
So..how would this work? So many plots = a coupon? That would create more jobs (we need) but more expense to Zynga to manage this.
May also cause a logistical nightmare with so many vendors and areas of the world to cover? Coupons could be redeem via your email system. The vendors would love that as a change for increased marketing. Submit required # of plots and bam ..5 minutes later your coupon is in your in box….sweet! Then I could see barns with company logos on them as in the olden days. So many gas purchases could provided a oil change coupon???
And I like your comments about hording on to too much stuff … that was funny! Only laughing at myself. Hard to let go. And you are right..more will come out next yr … and better.
I do still feel that the storage should be somewhat unlimited as it is in some other games I mentioned earlier.
I also wish they’d stop with the funny stuff and leave it at farming only.. It could be designed around farming around the country — it is different everywhere.
anyhow, thanks for the ear
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 am
Quit your moaning
you wanted a storage system so you got it
At least its better then nothing
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:05 am
Did they have to make it so difficault? why couldnt they just make a storage to store any item you want even all your items if you wanted! just a normal storage, not that you have to buy barns to store like 6 things, dissapointing.
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 am
Oh and, when you store things.. you basicly DONT WANT THEM. so why dont you just sell a couple? no difference, infact, you get money! (some people) out there are complaining about them not wanting their stuff.. so they want to store it… actually sell it. for those who are holding their items until further notice thats up to you.
just a thought
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 am
money hungry call them $ynga
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
its a game its not our right to spend money.
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
To farmville, i belive people are VERY upset. but if you made it a little more fun and more storage space = more players. since you guys looove money, more players = more money. right?
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
if $ynga keeps it like this then you will loose your 66,000,000 active loosers, now adoo.
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 am
I cant believe they keep saying they are updating and enhancing the game? Why do I get halted to reload the game eight times while trying to harvest? Looks like FV is on the downward spiral. They are not remembering where the game came from. More errors and issues and more items costing FV$? Yea here we go commercial? Whats next? Pay to play??
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
i think most of the posters here don’t know how to read and understand…. i wish farmville can include brains in the market so these nut heads could buy some for them to use!!!
the game is free and most of us are enjoying it but the creator have to limit the free items coz they do need some or earn some for themselves to keep the game running, you should understand that this game also cost them bucks to create so quit demanding!!!!
and for those who don’t know why they have to buy storage buildings… suckz to be you!!! ya i do want more items to store in the barns but things shouldn’t be easy every time for it will make the game boring…. there are items which takes up a lot of your space than barns and tool sheds and those items are the one you should store to maximize your space, why buy 10 barns if you don’t have anything to store in it????
this is a game guys, and games should be challenging and fun, why waste your time playing this if you’re not satisfied, if you want a more easy boring game then find some. sorry for being rude but maybe you should try thinking first before commenting negatively on those who are helping you to do something fun in your idle times. I’m sure they have a lot more updates, upgrades and surprises to add in the future so for now let’s all have a good time playing it OK???
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
I agree with the people saying that the storage system is awful. How many farms that have animals do not house at least some of those animals in a barn? Most farms with horses house them in barns, at least at times. Not being able to store, lets say 20, horses in a barn is a huge turn off.
Not being able to store large items such as the seeder, tractor and harvester is just a waste of space. Another nice thing would be that each vehicle has it’s own gas supply instead of sharing it.
Out of the 60 plus posts, only a couple disagree with the huge majority, people are upset over the capacity of the buildings, they need to listen, and YES, complaining works, when a huge majority are complaining, things will get changed, or that 90% will leave, and where will that leave them?
I have been playing for only 3 weeks, got to level 17 or 18 in a week, level 22 the next week, and now on level 27. And I did it without paying actual cash. But as with may others, I am getting bored with it, if people are getting bored and frustrated, they will leave. That may sound okay to some, but a business, any business, can not survive when a huge amount of people leave, and with a lot of them being your hard-core players.
Im okay with them making money, but they best be careful on how they go about it, and how much things cost.
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 at 5:41 am
actually the barn and tool shead together is 35…not separtely
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Storage amount given is for the birds. I think it’s BS that we should have to buy a barn with cash just to get more storage. At least in Farmtown it based on how many neighbors you have the more you have the more storage you get.
And now today I can’t even log in my crops will go to waste, YoVille won’t even load major issues there again. I think I’m just going to say F it to all Zynga’s apps. Shouldn’t have to deal with all the BS and bugs. They never listen to us it’s all about the money with them.
Posted on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
100!!
Posted on November 24th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I like having storage, I can put away Halloween decorations for a year.
However, i just took out my Spooky Bats to put something else in, and for some reason it had me buy another, and the original ones are still in storage. So now I have two and I guess if I remove the current ones I might be forced to buy a third, even though nobody can buy the damned things (hehe) normally anymore.
hmmm
Posted on November 25th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Ive notice some glitch pertaining with this..
http://www.farmvillefreak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=91
Posted on November 28th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
H i,Love the game ,But this money thing piss everyone off. Your not making what you need to run this game,We don’t want to pay . So how about this You have some 68,075,283 monthly active users. You could charge $1 an month $12 ayear 68 075 283 x 12 = 816 903 396 .Dam You could charge $ 6 an year and make some $300-400 million. No More need for fv $ just play and you could keep addin things ..
Posted on November 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
It is wonderful to work with fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas items such as fall trees, reindeer however when the season is gone it would be nice to store red maple trees, and ext for use again next year, or at least be able to sell them for a fair price so they can be replaced next season with out cost. These same items may not be an option to gift the next season. As far as having to purchase extra storage buildings and barns for the storage space that sure puts a limit to producing nice crops. We can only enlarge to a point.
Posted on November 30th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I just bought 2 extra toolsheds in the hopes of storing AT LEAST FOUR headstones…..what do you know…..BETWEEN THREE TOOLSHEDS, cant even get the two previously stored items PLUS THE FOUR MEASLY HEADSTONES in THOSE THREE SHEDS!!!!! This game is becoming more and more ridiculous, which is making it less and less fun to play. You’ll be losing players in droves before long! Most of us certainly arent going to spend real money either!!!! The point of playing games is just that….PLAYING….to see what you can accomplish EARNING items, etc. In this economy, we all enjoy the distraction of a nice little game….but intelligent people arent going to waste money for it! Please make the storage situation better before we all decide to move on. :/
Posted on December 23rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I understand the need to collect money, however I think they’re just being greedy. I look at World of Warcraft, which costs $20 a month to play. It’s a much more advanced game (I know, not nearly on the same level as farmville), but it costs less to play. That just seems totally ridiculous to me. Also, having to pay money to me means not having to deal with ads – even if it’s just Farmville prompting me to buy something. Paying money also means having an easier system of harvesting. If you pay $20 on FVs you should have access to unlimited use of the harvester/seeder/etc. regardless of what you spend it on. Unlike Warcraft, I don’t see them creating an expansion that creates a whole new system within the current game. So maybe they’re just grabbing as much money as possible because they know they have a large drop rate.
Posted on December 27th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Maybe we should all just quit playing Farmville, get off Facebook, and get back to our LIVES! Oh, the time I have wasted playing this worthless game.
Posted on December 30th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I have 5 barns…each hold 20 items! I am at capacity. I would like to save the items I have purchased, for next year. I bought and spent alot of money to buy these holiday items. Why should I have to sell things…just to clear my farm? It’s bad enough that I am at a HIGH LEVEL and can’t even expand. What’s up with that? This game is gettting boring. Why would I want to buy fireworks, calendars, and more fun items…if I can’t store more items. I am willing to buy more barns….why can’t that be unlimited? Why should you care how many items I store…I already spent the money????
Posted on December 31st, 2009 at 3:48 am
I stored my Workshop building in may storage barn only to find out that it cannot be stored. How can i get it..
Posted on January 1st, 2010 at 2:51 am
This is the worse storage system I have yet to see on this type of game. We spend hours and hours of accepting gifts individually only to have to sell them again because we don’t have enough storage space. Farmtown has a very good storage system. There are times when you want to reconstruct your farm and can’t do it because you have to keep moving your items around all the time whereas with Farmtown, you put everything in storage… and I mean EVERYTHING, and can then easily reconstract your farm.
Posted on January 1st, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I agree with everything Surfnspy said. Stop whining!!! If you don’t like the game the way it is, go away! I’m sure Zynga won’t miss you!
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 8:52 am
First Zynga based Farmville on Farm Town. So it stole the platform. Not much money spent here on development. Second, they get paid via advertisements . So no worry they are making enough money. No need to overcharge. Last, to Surfnspy I do not want to pay taxes. You like to idea of government controlling everything be my guest but leave the rest of us alone. Lets wait and see when our government will tell you to lose weight or stop drinking coffee or you will not qualify for the “free” health care. What ever the government controls really fails. Look at the schools. Please leave our money alone and let us make our own decision. We do not need babysitters!
I agree the storage system sucks. Each item is stored twice in the Barn and tool shed. So no extra space. What a waste. I also hate all these bugs.
I have been playing for 2 weeks now and I think I am done.
Posted on February 12th, 2010 at 12:29 am
I have many items that I want to store but only one is in coins and that is the red barn, first of all i only get 2 farmvillle cash every time I level up, I’m a level 21 now (I know not very high as i stopped for a little while)
So, I’m just sharing this suggestion to all of you, I decided that in one tiny corner of my farm I’m going to store all my unneeded itmes but still wanted and use fences so that it’ll look prettier, you don’t have to use this suggestion but it’s just my suggestion.
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 at 6:23 pm
when I try to purchase something such as the exclusive iphone items from the market on my iphone, it says i don’t have any storage space available, to remove some items or buy more storage buildings. I have the cellar that’s holds plenty of itmes and i even soldl some items and it still won’t let me.
Posted on November 25th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
i have a castle and i click STORE ITEM and it Disappeared? but i dont have any barns.. i just click STORE ITEM and its gone? how can i retrieve it? pls help
Posted on January 24th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
accttually to hold more thing all you have to do is buy a storage celler and the more shovels you have the more space i have 153 and can hold153 things in my shed because of the storage celler
Posted on January 24th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
jinx it probrbly went into your storage celler see if you have one because you might see it